Guy-anchor.



L. WHITE.

GUY ANCHOR.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 1a, 1915.

Pamnted Oct. 24, 1916.

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LEONARD WHITE, 0]? RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.

GUY-ANCHOR.

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Application filed September 16, 1915.

i '0 all av/tom 2'25 may concern:

Be it known that I, LEONARD WHITE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Richmond, in the county of I-Ienrico and State of Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Guy-Anchors, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvedground anchor and adapted to be employed for anchoring guy cables or rods of telephone, telegraph and electric light poles and the like, smoke stacks, derricks and other objects or structure requiring guy wires and has for one of its objects to simplify and improve the construction and increase the eiiiciency and utility of devices of the character and cheapen cost of manufacture.

The operation, construction and arrangements of parts of the invention are fully described in the following specification, and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which,-

Figure 1 shows my said new anchor in open position in top plan view. Fig. 2 shows side elevation. Fig. 3 shows cross sectional view of one of the wings. Fig. l. shows horizontal view of one of the wings. Fig. 5 shows top plan view of the base oi said new invention.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

' The improved device comprises a rod 10 of any suitable size and any suitable strength and with means, such as an eye 11, at one end for attachment of a guy member and threaded at the opposite end as represented at 12. At its lower end the rod 112 extends through a holding or base plate 13 and is provided with a nut 1 1 hearing be neath the plate. The wings 15 are hinged to base 13 by means of a bolt or rivet l6 passing through cars 17 turned up from the Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented (let. 24ft, 19%. Serial no. 51,007.

sides of the wings 15 and embracing the sides of the ears 1% on the base 13. On the ears 18 are small lugs 19 extending upward to keep the wings 15 at an angle less than 90? so that said wings will not fall in against rod 10. The wings 15 are flat and the ends and outward edges sharpened and turned downward to adapt them when in contact with the walls of the hole and the rod is drawn outwardly to have an expanding or spreading action therein, whereby they are firmly embedded in the solid ground.

In practice the anchor is placed in a hole bored into the ground the size of the base 13 and at the angle in which is the strain or pull of the guy wire. The anchor is placed in said hole with its wings folded as shown in Fig. 2. In the tamping operation, as the hole is filled in, the wings are forced partly open with their outwardly turned points penetrating the sides of the hole. It is thus apparent that an outward movement of the rod will effect an opening or spreading action of the wings, which is not stopped until the wings are resting Hat on the base in a plane parallel to the same plane as the base.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,-

In combination in an anchor, a base with ears thereon, a draft rod having its lower end threaded, a nut on the end of said rod pulling against the base of anchor. wings having their inner ends formed with ears which are hinged to the ears on the base of the anchor, a lug on the top of each of said first named ears forming stops to prevent the wings from assuming a vertical position, said wings being curved down and sharpened at their outer end.

In testimony whereof I have hereto signed my name to this specification.

LEONARD WHITE.

the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, I). C. 

